THOUGHTS ON PRAYER

Books are important.  Many today would dispute that, but just one argument in favor of books is that some old volumes, now out of print, will never be digitized.

I have one in my possession, and have decided to type and post sections of it on this blog.  The wisdom of our forbears should not be lost to technology.

This small volume also has sentimental value to our family.  It was owned and inscribed by the Rev. James A. Williams*, the great-grandfather of my children: Joel, Abigail and Hannah Mahan, and Laura Morgan.

Prayer is the lifeblood of the Christian and of the Church.  I hope the life wisdom and scriptural insights of Rev Fowler will cause you to grow in prayer power.

--LDMahan

Title page:

THOUGHTS ON PRAYER

From Sermon—Talks

By Rev. Charles J. Fowler

President for the National Association

for the Promotion of Holiness

Author of: “Counsel of Converts,” “Back to Pentecost,”

“Christian Unity,” and “How to Keep Sanctified”

THE CHRISTIAN WITNESS CO.

Chicago and Boston

Copyright, 1912

Inscribed by: J. A. Williams*, Ashland KY

INTRODUCTION

          These thoughts on prayer are not new.  They have been delivered in form of sermons, or familiar chair-talks for years at Conventions and other meetings in many sections of the country.

          They are not published in the interest of pecuniary gain; that this can be realized by any is more than unlikely, certainly to any extent worth one’s while, and to no extent to their author.

          Their publication has been requested and even urged for some years.  This has not been done before for several good and sufficient reasons.  Of late it has been pressed again by brethren whose judgment and interest I have respected for a long term of years.  They are now given to the press in prayerful hope that they may stimulate unto the exercise of that prayer life which becomes us all.

Dedication

          To the saints and faithful ones in general, and to the holiness people in particular, these Thoughts are dedicated by one of their number, who for forty-three years and more, has endeavored to practice them and has sought to help, in some measure, his brothers.

THE AUTHOR

West Newton, Mass.

Feb. 15^th, 1912